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Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders

Operate or tend a variety of machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.

Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

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Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

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Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

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Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed

Shoe and Leather Workers

Production Occupations

Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers

Study work orders or shoe part tags to obtain information about workloads, specifications, and the types of materials to be used.

Remove and examine shoes, shoe parts, and designs to verify conformance to specifications such as proper embedding of stitches in channels.

Perform routine equipment maintenance such as cleaning and lubricating machines or replacing broken needles.

Cut excess thread or material from shoe parts, using scissors or knives.

Align parts to be stitched, following seams, edges, or markings, before positioning them under needles.

Turn setscrews on needle bars, and position required numbers of needles in stitching machines.

Switch on machines, lower pressure feet or rollers to secure parts, and start machine stitching, using hand, foot, or knee controls.

Collect shoe parts from conveyer belts or racks and place them in machinery such as ovens or on molds for dressing, returning them to conveyers or racks to send them to the next work station.

Position dies on material in a manner that will obtain the maximum number of parts from each portion of material.

Test machinery to ensure proper functioning before beginning production.

Operate or tend machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.

Draw thread through machine guide slots, needles, and presser feet in preparation for stitching, or load rolls of wire through machine axles.

Fill shuttle spools with thread from a machine's bobbin winder by pressing a foot treadle.

Load hot-melt plastic rod glue through reactivator axles, using wrenches, and switch on reactivators, setting temperature and timers to heat glue to specifications.

Staple sides of shoes, pressing a foot treadle to position and hold each shoe under the feeder of the machine.

Select and place spools of thread or pre-wound bobbins into shuttles, or onto spindles or loupers of stitching machines.

Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders

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Career

What Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders Do

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Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders

Overview

Career

What Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders Do

Other Job Titles Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

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